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WELLESLEY WOMAN IS RED SOX NO. 1 FAN

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    A season-ticket holder for 22 years, Smith, 68, is scheduled to will be featured Friday morning on The Today Show on NBC’s “Today’’ show.’’ Earlier this month, a production crew spent five hours at her home in which thegetting a tour of 68-year-old Smith showed off herSmith’s Red Sox-themed home furnishings and attire, including the Fenway hat, customized Red Soxshoes, and outfits like the colorful dress designed to look like resembling a Christmas tree that she wore at the Fenway Christmas celebration designed to look like a Christmas tree — were among the ensemble.

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    Wellesley woman is Red Sox no. 1 fan

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    A season-ticket holder for 22 years, Smith, 68, is scheduled to will be featured Friday morning on The Today Show on NBC’s “Today’’ show.’’ Earlier this month, a production crew spent five hours at her home in which thegetting a tour of 68-year-old Smith showed off herSmith’s Red Sox-themed home furnishings and attire, including the Fenway hat, customized Red Soxshoes, and outfits like the colorful dress designed to look like resembling a Christmas tree that she wore at the Fenway Christmas celebration designed to look like a Christmas tree — were among the ensemble.

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    Wellesley, MA., 08/08/12, Story on Red Sox superfans, including Lynne Smith. Photographed in her home. Her bathroom has a Fenway mural, inclucing Yankee toilet paper. Section: G Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

    Smith’s bathroom has a Fenway mural, including Yankee toilet paper.

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    Boston, MA--1/24/2013 Ben Cherington (cq), right, the Boston Red Sox general manager talking to Lynne Smith and Scott Hawkins during the cocktail hour before the Boston Baseball Writers Association Dinner at the Westin Copley Place on Thursday January 24 2013. (Matthew J. Lee/Globe staff) Topic: Red Sox Reporter: Peter Abraham

    Ben Cherington, right, the Boston Red Sox general manager talking to Lynne Smith and Scott Hawkins during the cocktail hour before the Boston Baseball Writers Association Dinner at the Westin Copley Place on Thursday, January 24 2013.

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    Wellesley, MA., 08/08/12, Story on Red Sox superfans, including Lynne Smith. Photographed in her home. Section: G Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

    Smith was recently honored by the Red Sox with its inaugural Lib Dooley Award, saluting the team’s most loyal fan.

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    Wellesley, MA., 08/08/12, Story on Red Sox superfans, including Lynne Smith. Photographed in her home. She wears the starting pitcher's face on her earrings on game days. Section: G Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff

    “I had the idea for the hat for the 1999 All-Star game in Boston. My late friend, Teri Ramirez, sewed it to look like a miniature Fenway Park. We then put little helmets on the hat to represent all the major league teams,’’ recalled Smith.

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